Before you ask I was never turned down by the military. Couldn`t have been.... I never applied.
So why so much interest now then?
The mil recruit you not only as a pilot but as a tactician with the ability to think not only about flying the aircraft but fighting it and surviving in it. This generally means that people with the right abilities have to be taken in young and trained for several years for the role, be they pilot or any other type of mil aircrew.
Mad Mark!!!